Who are we?


Friends since high school, we practice together several mountain outdoor sports (Rock climbing, Alpinism, Orientering, Snow board, Snow kite and mountain bike). Our first trip was to cross the French Massif Central Range from Clermont-Ferrand to Montpellier at 15 years old by bike. During the 2 years of French "Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles", we spoke a lot of a longer trip, looking at the world map in front of our beds. It now occurs...

Thomas Chauve
23 years old
Master student in Physics, Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble
want to specialized in glacier flows studies.

Adventurer background
By bike
1998   Cylocamping in Limousin 
2000   Crossing of the French Alpes
2001   Cyclocamping in Bourgogne
2002   Diagonal between Alpes and Bretagne 
2003   Jura tower
2004   Corse Island tower
2006   Crossing the South East of France, towards                          the Mediteranean Sea
2006   Crossing of the Massif Central (GTMC)
2006   Crossinf of the French Pyrenées Ocean-Mer

Hiking
2007   Crossing of the Vercors
2008   Queyras tower
2009   Ecrins tower
2011   Crossing of the Ubaye Valley

Others
2009   Rock climbing trip in Vanoise and Beaufortain
2010    Rock climbing trip in Queyras
2011-2012   6 months of Backpacking in New Zeland


Like
playing chess in the emptiness of Patagonie.
fishing in Carretera Austral

Don't like
that Baptiste like Dulce de leche
five consecutive days of rain in Carretera

Is able to
eat 500g of Dulce de Leche after 250 g of pastas

Is nostalgic for
a verveine, during a winter night in the Chamechaude hut.
dishes of his grand mother.

Would like
an open world with penguins
to catch le big one!





Baptiste Rousset
22 years old
Master student in geosciences, ENS, Paris 
Want to specialized in active tectonics of collision zones.
Studied postseismic motions due to the Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan during an internship at Caltech, USA.

Adventurer background
2005   GR7 in Lozère, France
2006   Crossing of the  Massif Central by mountain bike, France
2007   10 days of  alpinism, Ecrins, France
2009   Via ferrata delle Bocchette, Dolomites, Italy 
2010   Geologic treck, Kanchenjunga valley, East Nepal
           Tandem tower of the Brittany point, France
2011   3 weeks of geophysic trip in Taiwan.
           Road trip in California, Arizona and Utah, USA
           Corse tower with bob, the trailer! France

+ Various climbs: Queyras, Beaufortain, Vanoise,
                                Ecrins,Ardèche,Calanques, California

Like   
to wear his Pata in the evening, after a huge cycling day.
to write the story of our adventures day by day.

Don't like
the face wind in Patagonia
to be passed by a semi in a dusty dirt road.
that Thomas also like the dulcce de Membrillo!

Is able to
stay clean during 5 months with only 3 boxer shorts

Is nostalgic for
fresh strawberry sorbets, just getting out of the ice-cream maker.
the evening star.